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10 fun facts about Marco Rubio

With an upcoming biography revealing new details about Sen. Marco Rubio’s life — his grandfather ignored a deportation order, for instance — here’s POLITICO’s list of 10 more things you might not know about the Florida Republican and potential VP pick:

1. Hates disco music. He recently called the ’70s a “very frightening time” when “we had to overcome disco, and bell bottoms, and the Bee Gees.” His current favorite? Nicki Minaj.

But Rubio still fails to embrace his economic immigration past and clings to the false anti-Castro story to make himself more attractive politically in Miami. Rubio's family was just like millions of Mexicans who cross the border ILLEGALLY every year searching for a better life, it is just that the Castro story was easier to sell to immigration authorities so the Rubio's could stay.

I am utterly impressed by this guy (sarcasm) and by his musical taste, obviously no Mozart, no Vivaldi, no Beethoven. Another empty suit; he and Mitty conform the perfect couple; phony is the middle name.

This baffoon who wouldn't even be in office if he had had a 1 on 1 race. Wants to be in line to have his finger on the nuclear botton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet on State of the Union sunday . Ol Candy Crowley, who offends NO ONE, asked 3 questions and had Rubio wetting his pants and looking pale, like OMG I'm on NATIONAL TV and she exposed all my lies and BS !!!

Go watch it. It's there on podcast.

You won't be the least bit surprised that he lied his assss off about his imigration history after that.

He's just a suckup punk. With Rivera as his crooked bagman partner stealing campaign funds.

My guess is that the Republicans were burned so badly by the Palin pick that they will be very unlikely to run the risk of a repeat by choosing Rubio as a VP candidate. Rubio is smart and attractive, but he needs a little more time to mature into that slot. Rubio brings to mind JFK in 1956, but without the Oz like presence of Joe Kennedy. A Kennedy Vice Presidency in that year would have likely went down to defeat, and tarnished JFK's winning reputation from then onward. It is unlikely he could have bested LBJ four years later with a failed VP run on his record.

The conservatives should water Rubio well, but not pick too early. Should he decline to join the ticket and Romney lose, Rubio may very well be a contender for the top spot in four years, Should he join and Romney win, he may risk being the sales manager for the next eight years instead of the CEO. The worst outcome would be to sign on with Romney and then lose with him. That was the outcome Kennedy avoided in '56.

Romney needs to go south and right. Another Boston / Austin pairing would have been perfect, had Rick Perry not bumbled into the primaries. We southerners have always welcomed these Texas cowboys. Louisiana is the deepest of deep south states, but borders Texas. Bobby Jindal would be an interesting pick as VP.

Truman was up to the job in 1945, as was LBJ in 1963. Nixon clearly had the intelligence for the job, moral failings not withstanding. Mondale, Bush, Sr., Bentsen, Gore, Kemp and Biden were all solid choices. But can anyone imagine Palin or Quayle suddenly being sworn in as president? Or, for that matter, a John Edwards?

Romney appears to be a shrewd operator. Hopefully he knows that a Quayle or Palin type candidate will sink him with an electorate wary of Republican Vice Presidential choices, If he can hit the target here with a solid Vice Presidential pick, and he can, the Republicans may be on the road to The White House.

ThrowRhetoric, Not is on the right track. In his very short political career, Marco Rubio has been involved in a long series of ethical lapses. He has managed to walk the tightrope by not being truthful. This pattern of behavior will ensure that the Republicans lose in a landslide if Mitt Romney is so foolish as to select the inexperienced and unqualified Marco Rubio as his VEEP.

armyofninos needs to be aware that political decisions are not made based on the appearance of a candidate's wife. The inexperienced and unqualified Marco Rubio is not going to see his political career advance merely because he has a wife who is hot.

DemocracyforDemoc ... is correct. The inexperienced and unqualified Marco Rubio has caged himself in by his radical Tea Party views. During his brief tenure as a Florida politican, he has done NOTHING to meet the needs of the citizens of Florida.

USAer knows that there is still a long list of negatives associated with the inexperienced and unqualified Marco Rubio. If he becomes the nominee, the Obama/Biden team will tear his very short political career all apart. Slimy Marco Rubio has already given them a mountain of material. If I were in charge of the campaign, I would begin by educating voters to the fact that the neophyte Marco Rubio is a deadbeat. He has failed to pay off his student loans!

VOTING FOR A REPUBLICAN IS AN INDICATION OF BEING UNAWARE OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD AROUND YOU.

JTR12 needs to know that the real reason for "yikes" is because of the fact that the inexperienced and unqualified Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Reagan library where he declared that Social Security had made the nation weak and that those who relied on his government program were lazy. He said that he wants to return to the era when the needs of senior citizens were met by family, friends and neighbors.